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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
Poll Question
When we first started collecting coins, * Where did we live? * How young were we? * Did we collect Lincoln cents or another series? Three questions, 8 choices, where do you fit? Results
| USA - 10 or younger - Lincoln cents |
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35% |
26 Votes |
| USA - 10 or younger - Other series |
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15% |
11 Votes |
| USA - 11 or older - Lincoln cents |
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12% |
9 Votes |
| USA - 11 or older - Other series |
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24% |
18 Votes |
| Not USA - 10 or younger - Lincoln cents |
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0% |
0 Votes |
| Not USA - 10 or younger - Other series |
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7% |
5 Votes |
| Not USA - 11 or older - Lincoln cents |
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1% |
1 Votes |
| Not USA - 11 or older - Other series |
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7% |
5 Votes |
Poll Status:
Locked
Total Votes: 75 Counted
Last Vote:
01/22/2008 6:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
When I first started collecting coins: I grew up and still live in NJ. I started collecting when I was 11. My first collections were Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels. I started out using Whitman coin boards. I came close to finishing my Jefferson nickel collection. As for my Lincoln cents, I'm not even close to completing it. |
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Valued Member
 United States
455 Posts |
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, started with Lincoln cents when I was 8 or 9.
I'm not sure what caused my attraction to coin collecting at such a young age. I know I was always intrigued with the older dates. I'm also thinking that maybe the desire to collect was driven by something much simpler than that. I liked money!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2254 Posts |
Raised in Pa. Live in Mass now. I was 35 when I started, which was only about 1 year ago when I got hot and heavy into the hobby. Another one of the "inheritance hook in mouth" stories. Plus, when this is the first forum you find and join, how can you give it up......  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
Started before I was ten when my grandpa was collecting coins. I've only just recently taken it seriously and now I'm addicted!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
I must have been seven or eight. My parents would take me to the mall shopping. If I was good, they would buy me a packet of foreign coins that a little bookstore there sold. That was my first introduction to coin collecting. Later on, I ' inherited' my grandmother's savings of old Mercury dimes and Franklin halves, plus my mothers piggy bank FULL of wheat pennies. I was probably 12 or 13 when we sat down at the table and went through all of them, sorting the best examples into Whitman books. The rest went back into their respective banks, and remain there to this day. :) Those were good memories. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2797 Posts |
I've told the story before so I won't go into detail. Dad got me hooked when I was around 5 or 6. We were in a small town in NE Oregon and we went to local businesses and exchanged shiny coins for those dated prior to 1940. I guess I was a cute kid cause the retailers always took lots of time to search their cash drawers. Now I wish I had those shiny coins, too. |
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United States
277 Posts |
I started when I found a Walking Liberty half dollar in the neighbors garden. They let me keep it. I was about 7 or 8 I guess. Started with pennies of course, but I enjoyed nickles especially. Fatcat |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
651 Posts |
I started with quarters as they were the first silver coins I received from my paper route.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
597 Posts |
Vietnamese, Australian and Japanese coins and US MPC's brought back from Asia by my father.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Started as a teenager in Iowa. Wish I had all the change that was then available now. If I knew Then what I know now, I would have bought rolls buy the box full of new coins. I could have retired early if I had. My Grandmother has some Indian heads and flying eagles and said I could have them when she was gone, but I never got them. I guess that sparked my interest and later was able to have a nice collection them. But sold them all trying to thin down my collection. I had a AU/BU 1999/9 Cent I picked up from a shop for $10. I sold the coin a few years later for $76. So I started early and after the children had grown, started all over again. Seems money was always short when you have children.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Couldn't vote. Should have a place for Lincoln Cents AND others.
I started with several.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
764 Posts |
i was a 3'8" four year old looking through coins at shops in new jersey. then when I was seven, I was going to coin clubs and was known as the little boy, hence the username.  |
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New Member
United States
44 Posts |
I am still in middle school and I dont really collect lincoln cents.
I pretty much only collect morgans. Currently I have about 35.
Most in BU.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
673 Posts |
My Grandfather showed me his stash of silver when I was about 12 years old, he wasn't really a collector- he just didn't turn in all his silver when the switch came about in 1965. That same year my Great Grandmother gave me an 1843 Seated quarter and a 1916 merc- very worn and I spent alot of time looking for that D ! I began my collection with silver halves, quarters, and dimes. Then in 1980 got lucky and sold alot of duplicates for the inflated prices silver was at and started collecting everything I could get my hands on, since then it has become an integral part of my life and I drive most of my friends and relatives crazy constantly yakking about recent acquisitions . Great reason to join here, at least I know there are interested parties here ! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
986 Posts |
I'm 15, and I think I've been collecting for around 1-2 years. I never really collected lincolns seriously, although I have most of a whitman folder finished. Unfortunately, I discovered bust halves last year and now I've got bust half fever! The rising prices of bust halves, my very limited budget and my insane pickiness aren't exactly a good combination.
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Posted 08/23/2007 12:26 am
